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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.

Beatrice Wood

I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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Finest Life Pieces
I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Book India Interested
Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Country Crafts Wonderful
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Art Books Chocolate Men Owe
You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex
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Life Sex Views
Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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Girls Love Most Stage Stuck
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Adventure Danger Love
Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Enjoy Going Out Wells
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way
I was in a convent for a year.
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Convent Hope Years
Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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Choosing Easiest Happiest Life Time Timeless
There’s so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
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Inspire Life Thinking
And culture is – each of us – is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that’s all right. But once you’re on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.
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Another Come Contribute Each Once Pearl True
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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Art Usual Work
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Great India Life Things
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Charming Mother Unhappy
I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends.
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Girlfriend Husband Men
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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Acting Actresses Fascinating
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Change Changing World Yourself
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Afterlife Believe Happens
First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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Facts Firsts Work
My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Happiness Life Mistake
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Air Inspiration People
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn’t mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
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Mean Thinking Time

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